On 16/04/2018 15:20, Igor Mammedov wrote: > Generally object doesn't need to know its own name, > we use it only for debugging and nice error reporting so far. > I'd rather have 'id' property at Object level so we won't have > to fish out ID from parent /which we aren't supposed to do and > which doesn't work in some cases/ when it's needed within > object itself.
Having an 'id' at object level is also a mess, because that id is invalid after unparent. Since this is just for debugging use, object_get_canonical_path_component is the right function. We can just make it return NULL if there is no parent. Paolo
